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Young Francis Xavier had everything going for him.  A champion at sports and studies, he was ready to win the whole world for himself.  Then one day his best friend, Ignatius of Loyola, showed him that true champions are of a far more heroic breed - those who risk their all to win the world for God.

Francis became a Jesuit missionary and set off to the farthest reaches of the world.  He saved pearl divers, stood off pirates, and quested with a mysterious samurai warrior in search of a hidden treasure.

FRANCIS XAVIER and the SAMURAI'S LOST TREASURE captures the true spirit of a daring man who braved the pearl coasts and jungles of India, and the forbidding castles of Japan, in amazing adventures of courage and faith. 

St. Francis Xavier

Feast Day: Roman Rite Calendar - 12/03 Tridentine Calendar - 12/03 Patron Of: Apostleship Of Prayer, Australia, Borneo, China, Emigrants, Hospital Administrators, Immigrants, Missionaries, Missions, Domestic, Missions, Foreign, New Zealand, Winemakers Profile     Nobleman from the Basque reqion. Studied and taught philosophy at the University of Paris, and planned a career as a professor. Friend of Saint Ignatius of Loyola who convinced him to use his talents to spread the Gospel. One of the founding Jesuits, and the first Jesuit missionary. Priest.     In Goa, while waiting to take ship, India, he preached in the street, worked with the sick, and taught children their catechism. He would walk through the streets ringing a bell to call the children to their studies. Said to have converted the entire city.     He scolded his patron, King John of Portugal, over the slave trade: "You have no right to spread the Catholic faith while you take away all the country's riches. It upsets me to know that at the hour of your death you may be ordered out of paradise."     Tremendously successful missionary for ten years in India, the East Indies, and Japan, baptizing more than 40,000. His epic finds him dining with head hunters, washing sores of lepers in Venice, teaching catechism to Indian children, baptizing 10,000 in a single month. He tolerated the most appalling conditions on long sea voyages, enduring extremes of heat and cold. Wherever he went he would seek out and help the poor and forgotten. He traveled thousands of miles, most on his bare feet, and he saw the greater part of the Far East. Had the gift of tongues. Miracle worker. Raised people from the dead. Calmed storms. Prophet. Healer. Born     1506 at Javier, Spanish Navarre Died     2 December 1552 at Sancian, China of a fever contracted on a mission journey Beatified     25 October 1619 by Pope Paul V Canonized     12 March 1622 by Pope Gregory XV All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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